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Friday, March 27, 2015

New FBI Director James Comey Laments The Lack Of Minority Agents But There's A Reason For That

FBI Director James Comey

The new head of the FBI, James Comey, who replaced racist,
bribe taking, taxpayer money wasting former agency director,
Robert S. Mueller, gave a speech recently lamenting the lack of
agents of color at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Myself and others have the distinct impression black lives
don’t matter at the FBI. It is how minorities have been treated
by the agency and it is a black mark on the FBI's name and
image.

As stated previously in the column, black agents came out on
record stating the agency had the late civil rights leader Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr killed. Modern day cases such as Trayvon
Martin and Mike Brown, saw the agency state they would investigate,
then each time corruptly
pronounced there was no wrongdoing.

Martin was an underage, unarmed black teen, who was illegally stalked,
confronted, harassed, then murdered by a deranged, self-proclaimed
neighborhood watchman. Yet no one at the FBI saw anything wrong
with that. If someone stalked, confronted, harassed and killed
their unarmed, underage offspring, the FBI would ensure the
perpetrators didn’t even make it to the police station. There would be
no trial. The perpetrators would be dead.

Innocent minority men
spent years behind bars proclaiming their innocence, all because
of corruption that came out of an FBI lab trying to meet arrest
and conviction quotas to get more taxpayer money from Congress. None of this has helped the FBI
in the eyes of minorities in America and all over the world.

As I have stated in the past, there are good law enforcement
officers and bad ones as well. One can’t generalize everyone.
The problem with the FBI is there are so many egregious cases
that have harmed innocent minorities and resulted in injustices
that
people are highly suspicious of the agency. This negative image is one of
the FBI’s own making. They can’t complain. Their deeds regarding
minorities led the nation and the world to feel this way. There are inequities in how minorities are treated by the FBI
and it is plain for many to see. It does not compel people of
color to join the agency. Hence the decreased number of
minorities at the FBI.